1. On February 2, 2012, Mirjana received her monthly apparition in Naples (Italy), in the presence of a huge crowd! Then she shared the following message:

Dear children! I am with you for so much time and already for so long I have been pointing you to God’s presence and His infinite love, which I desire for all of you to come to know. And you, my children? You continue to be deaf and blind as you look at the world around you and do not want to see where it is going without my Son. You are renouncing Him – and He is the source of all graces. You listen to me while I am speaking to you, but your hearts are closed and you are not hearing me. You are not praying to the Holy Spirit to illuminate you. My children, pride has come to rule. I am pointing out humility to you. My children, remember that only a humble soul shines with purity and beauty because it has come to know the love of God. Only a humble soul becomes heaven, because my Son is in it. Thank you. Again I implore you to pray for those whom my Son has chosen – those are your shepherds.

This message should be commented upon at length! I suggest that you sit down for a few minutes, read it with careful attention, and absorb each word of it in your intelligence as well as your heart. Then take a piece of paper and write down what you need to decide concretely, to make of this powerful message a providential chance to change something in your life. If our Mother tells us that we are deaf and blind, that we have denied her Son and do not pray the Holy Spirit, that we do not want to see where the world is going, it is serious. It is high time that we change direction. She is showing us the way to salvation, let us not miss the boat, since it concerns our eternity, nothing less!

2. An 11-year old teaches us! Little Chiara is riddled with cancer. Last January, she came from the United States with her father, her grandmother, her godmother and some friends. Her family wanted to implore the Blessed Mother to help their little girl . Her mother stayed home with her 2 younger children. During the deep enconter we had with her, we would never have guessed that the doctors had not given her long to live. She was leading the conversation with surprising joy and serenity, cracking jokes and reassuring everyone by her positive spirit. Then, with the simplicity of a pure heart, she explained to me, « You know, Jesus will decide for me, I know that He will make the best decision. I am confident! Either I will be healed and I am happy, or I will not be healed and I am happy too! In both cases, I win because I know that it is He who decides ».

She said to her family, « If I die, I will go to heaven and I will wait for you there! »

Chiara was able to meet Vicka who kissed her tenderly and prayed for her for 20 minutes. Chiara said to her, « You know, Vicka, I am not afraid to die! If I live, I win. If I die, I win! In both cases I’ll be with Jesus! » Vicka answered her in her ear, « You are right, you have no reason to be afraid! » Her father was deeply moved and he confided to us, « I realize that Chiara actually did not need to come to Medjugorje, she already had peace in her heart. But it is us (her family) who needed to come ! Here we have found peace. »

3. Snow over Medjugorje! For more than 2 weeks, apart from the chuch and its prayer program, everything has stopped in Medjugorje because of exceptional snowfalls. The school, the offices, the stores are closed, cars are not running (they rather ressemble igloos), my sisters go to the Blue Cross on skis!! The village is now covered with a thick layer of ice. Even though the snow has caused unfortunate damages (among them, our tent collapsed under the excessive weight of the snow, see picture), the Lord has used it for beautiful things, especially inspiring some active mutual support. These trials, unexpected and unplanned by men, make us realize how vulnerable our life on earth is, and how small we are! God allows it for our benefit, it pushes us to take the time to reflect over our life, its meaning and its goal.

Who knows if this episode is not in fact a preparation, so that we may learn how to live more simply?! The advertising industry has made anxious people of us, never satisfied with what we have, it creates needs that don’t in truth exist, and expensive ones at that! It holds us hostage to our addictions and attachments.

Our Lady invites us to remain simple, even if this contradicts the « good looking » rule of appearances which reign in the world. One day, we might be lacking things which today we consider essential, and not only for a few weeks during winter! The Holy Family lived without running water or electricity, without mobile phones or computers… Are we ready? When God gives, it is a present; when He takes away, it is also a present. Because then we thank Him for what He had given (which we took for granted) and we open ourselves to other gifts. The word of Christ remains true: “Seek first the Kingdom of God and its rightiousness, and all the rest will be granted to you in addition”.

We have experienced multiplications of food here amongst other things, many times! It is a sign of what the Lord will do in the future, because He watches over His people; but He needs our trust. We have started a 30 day novena to St Joseph (feast day on March 19). Join us! Treat him like a friend of the family, he will not leave you wanting! Didn’t he provide the bread of this earth for the One who is the Bread of Life!?

4. “Naples on fire!” On February 2, in the big Naples stadium, about 30,000 people were gathered to attend the monthly apparition of Mirjana. Many beautiful reports about the event are coming to me!

– First miracle: 30,000 Napolitans, among them many youth, remained several hours in complete silence… No comment!

– Then, there was a very tangible anointing coming down from Heaven when the Blessed Mother appeared, and it resulted in many conversions.

– Last, almost everyone attended the “miracle of the sun” after the apparition, and those who had come dragging their feet went back home transformed.

For example, Constanza tells that she seldom went to church before, as she thought she had better things to do. But on that day, she was blessed to see the Blessed Mother in the Stadium of Naples! Ever since then, she has enjoyed the beauty and the value of the mass, she wouldn’t miss praying her daily Rosary (which she never prayed before), she immerses herself in the lives of the Saints, and most of all, her heart is now eager to move forward with God…

The whole family is waiting for the birth of the child in a few weeks… How precious are such grandmothers! Doing so, they spare so many babies from being aborted!

5. A real heart of a mother! Many laws go against human life, and our pagan Western world influences even Catholics on that matter. But beautiful attitudes still exist and it is important to publish them too! In Italy, a single woman of 30 found herself pregnant. Her mother, a good Catholic who raised her children in the strict observance of the commandments of God, had to be told of this unexpected pregnancy. Of course, her daughter was afraid to break the news to her mother. But when the mother (who had become a grandmother!) heard the news, she exclaimed, “Ah well then, before the gift of life, there is nothing to do but to kneel down!”

The whole family is waiting for the birth of the child in a few weeks… How precious are such grandmothers! Doing so, they spare so many babies from being aborted!

6. Be careful, many fake messages are invading the Internet!! A message attributed to the Blessed Mother and supposedly given to the visionary Ivan has been going around the world for years on the Internet. It concerns the news of an imminent catastrophe in Lebanon, etc. Ivan, who was asked about it by an American friend, formally denied it. Evidently, the tone of the message is absolutely not according to our Mother’s way. It sows useless panic and distracts us from what our Mother teaches us in her true messages. Another one is going around concerning France. It is fake too! Also, why would the Gospa need to give messages of this importance to some private circles (knowing that it would be widely spread a minute later on the internet!), when she can simply do it through her normal chanels, in her monthly messages of the 25th and of the 2nd?! It would be foolish!

The safest thing is to rely on the official messages published by the parish or by serious sites linked to Medjugorje, and to start living them.

The trap is to let oneself be caught by alarming news that create trouble rather than a conversion of the heart and peace. Let everyone decide this: When a message does not come from a sure source, let’s not forward it to our email contacts. A lot of trouble would be avoided thus! To go back to the source of the information and check it, is the only sure way to be certain of the truth and transmit it!

Dearest Gospa, we we don’t want to renounce your Son nor you! What would we do without you? You are our joy, our peace, our love and out reason to live!

PS 2. “Maryam of Bethlehem, the little Arab”, Sr. Emmanuel’s newest e-book is now available online. Who is this little Arab? Maryam Baouardy is a daughter of Galilee. Her life? A succession of supernatural manifestations worthy of Catherine of Sienna. Maryam shares the keys of holiness, including ways to defeat Satan himself. This is a book you don’t want to miss? Go to Children of Medjugorje’s online shop to download Maryam of Bethlehem, the little Arab for $5.00 at www.childrenofmedjugorje.com

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PS 7. Watch Sister Emmanuel ON DEMAND, on your computer! Go to: www.napavalleyTV.org. Click on « Video on Demand » on the red banner at the top. Screen goes light blue- wait, then scroll way down until you see channel 27 channel 28 side by side. Click on Channel 28 and scroll down the list until « Medjugorje- Our Mother’s Last Call », then click on the date you want to watch.